Budget deal may 'suck' for Pelosi, but not for Ryan

6:52 PM,
Dec. 19, 2013

Kathleen Parker

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Kathleen
PARKER

'Tis the season and Nancy Pelosi has given the hands-down best gift - her phrase "Embrace the suck."

Offered to fellow Democrats as a push to pass the bipartisan budget bill, the phrase has all the characteristics necessary to ensure a permanent place in the popular lexicon. It's succinct, raunchy-esque and, most important, you know exactly what it means. "It sucks, but it's the best we'll get."

Punctuating her epitaph-ready mandate, Pelosi added a characteristic subtitle: "We need to get this off the table so we can go forward," which sounds similar to her previous comment on the Affordable ...